The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

We send 1000, 900 barrels of apples every year
to foreign nations and won't take any sass"
in return either.
DARwIN's BIOGRAPHY has had great SALE
The entire edition of 1000 has been sold and
there is still great demand for the work.
IT IS ESTIMATED that 36,675 900 yards of silk
ribbon, equivalent to about 22,700 miles. have
been made in Paterson, n. j., during the past
year.
Fox-HUNTERs near Washington ran the fox
into town, and it dashed into a police station
and upstairs into the dormitory, where 1t was
captured.
A GLASS EATER turned up at Keokuk, Ia, re-
Gently in the person of a young boy. Upon a
wager he devoured half a lamp chimney and
seemed to relish it as d sweet morsel
A SPARROW hoped on pile of CLANS in an
Oxford Pa,) restaurant the other day, and was
suddenly imprisoned by one of the bivalves,
which closed its shell together over the birds
foot.
IA TRAIN on the Michigan Central railway re-
Gently ran from Jackson to Michigan City,
distance of 1856 miles, in III minutes, making
several stops This is reported to be the fastest
time ever made on the road
A LARGE white oak tree, owned by T. I. Hill
burne, at Vernon, Ala, is one of the botanical
curiosities of the State. Half of the foliage of
the other half is always a dark green.
SEBASTIAN MULLER, a Swiss, % years old, 5
feet inches tall, weighs pound and a half
less than 200, can break six-inch cobble-stone
with one blow of his fist. He is now giving ex-
hibitions of his strength in New Haven.
THE Philadelphia grand jury wants to have
the wife-teaters of that city formed into
chain-gang and set to sweep the streets. This
would be better than Furnishing the wife-beater
with fine, which the wife generally has to pay
in the end.
CARRYING out one of Senator Hoar's ideas, the
Essex Club of Boston has suggested that the
public schools of Massachusetts devote portion
of Dec. II to exercises in honor of John G.
Whittier, that day being the eightieth anniver-
sary of his birth.
w. G. VAN HORN Vice President of the Cana
dian Pacific railway, said a few days ago that in
less than month his road would have connec-
ton at Saut Ste. Marie that would tap our
Northwest, and be of immense advantage to the
Canadian Pacific.
BUFFALO having taken her own census, claims
that she is now possessed of go, 2S4 souls, and
that her increase since 1885 is q, 466. This
is truly remarkable showing, but it is in keep
ing with the great strides the city has made in
many other respects.
THE late Maj. Mordecai, of North Carolina,
during an audience with the Car of Russia,
of a somewhat informal and conversational ma
ture, used the address Monsieur" Having
carried the interview forward so far in French,
turning to Gen. Mcclellan, who stood near by,
Maj. Mordecai suddenly exclaimed, with a
mighty and deep Carolinian OATH: "Ha! l
called the fellow pster The Car there1P0n
tered the Majors bones like ice; 81 speak En-
glish qnite well enough, sir, to continue our in
terview in that language if you prefer it"
THE LATEST fad in social circles in Chicago is
news classes among young ladies. A large
party meets twice q week in the afternoon, and
the teacher, lady of great culture, discusses
with them the news of the day She takes a
newspaper, and selecting matters of foreign
and domestic interest, discusses and explains
them in a most entertaining manner, the mem
bers of the class asking questions and making
comments and suggestions freely. Last week
the chief topics were the execution of the An
archists, the illness of the Crown Prince of Ger
many and its possible consequences, the scandal
in official circles in Paris, and the meeting of
the Fisheries Commission in Washington.
A Missouri EDITOR publishes the following,
headed Important Correction: "a story cir
culating around town this week by persons who
ought to be in better business that while we
were attending the reception to Mr.. and Mrs
Cleveland at Kansas City we got drunk and
stood on the street corner roaring like colicky
elephant and making the assertion that we were
from Bitter Creek, and could lick any President
that ever looked throngha collar, is absolutely
false. What we did do, and all we did, was to
get drunk, try to pound policeman who was
really much larger than ne appeared, and pay
our fine the next morning. People who persist
in circulating scandalous stories with no
foundation about us will run up against some
thing which will hurt some day"
THERE was slight panic Sunday afternoon
among the children in st. Peters Sunday school,
Jersey City, and one child, Mary Tuohey, age
10, of 3215 Bright street, was injured. The
iS ha1 in tba hos Of ba cb,,r
Grand and Van Worst streets. The children
were just about to be dismissed when the sexton
turned on more steam, causing Kissing sound
from one of the pipes in the rear of the room.
Some of the children became excited and fright
ened and made rush for the door Mary
Tuohey was Knocked down and tramped upon
and is thought to be seriously injured Shew
sent home in a carriage and two physicians
were summoned to attend her. Some firemen
belonging to Truck Company No. 2, on the other
side of the street, saw the excited children run
ming out and fastened over to the church. They
saw at once there was no danger and succeeded
in calming the children.
Occasional wisdom of the worldly kind amon.-
Bohemians, is worthy of remark. Twelve years
ago young reporter on the New York Tribune
who was enabled to earn SIS a week, had an
opportunity to go West. In a few weeks he
came back, drifted about among his friends and
raise $1,000, and went back again. This sum
he invested in a cattle ranch up north of Chey-
enne. A couple of days ago he turned up on
Broadway with large and violently developed
desire to illuminate the town. He is now wOr h
a cool $500,0G0 and he comes to New York
every winter to celebrate. Upon these occasions
he blows in several thousand dollars within
three or four months. and then he goes back to
Wyoming and watches his cattle for the bal
ance of the year The business has its draw
backs, hut the eXreporter declares with en-
phasiS that, on the whole, he wouldn't exchange
1t for life on a newspaper at S1S a week.
THE strange word that is spelled differently
everywhere it is printed, and that describes a
tribe of Indians just removed from Canada to
Alaska, is really ''MetIakahta." The Metla-
kahtlans are band of the Tsmsheans or saw
ages of the west coast of British America A
missionary named William Duncan found them
in savage and cannibalistic state and not only
converted them to Christianity, but taught
them to work, so that after a quarter of a cen
fury of his guidance they had established viii
lage, church, several stores and workshops
trading schooner, fire and police depart
ment, and many other of the institutions of civil
lzatlon. They were more than self-supporting
Duncan refused the BshOprc years ago but
more recently the Church of England sent a
Bishop to Metlakahtla, who proved firebrand
in the community. He punched one or two
natives, and went about with gun as if afraid
OF his life. He insisted upon being called MY |
Lord, and the people. not liking any of this, |
rebelled when he sought to pre-empt a part of |
their land for church uses Neither the church |
nor the government took compassion on the In.
dams, and they left their village and came un- !
der our flag in Alaska, the nearest point of |
which is only few miles from where they |
were. William Duncan has been to this city |
and to Washington, and has friends in both |